They turned to molecules because they knew that before the neural-based brain evolved, single-celled organisms showed limited forms of intelligence. These microorganisms did not have brains, but instead had molecules that interacted with each other and spurred the creatures to search for food and avoid toxins. The bottom line is that molecules can act like circuits, processing and transmitting information and computing data.

The Caltech used DNA molecules specifically for the experiment, because these molecules interact in specific ways determined by the sequence of their four bases: adenine (abbreviated A), cytosine (C), guanine (G) and thymine (T). And what’s more, scientists can encode the sequence into strands of DNA molecules, essentially programming them to function in a predetermined way.

This is a very interesting development. I just hope they don’t decide to call it “Cyberdyne” or “Mother Brain.”

DeepCough

This is a very interesting development. I just hope they don’t decide to call it “Cyberdyne” or “Mother Brain.”

http://twitter.com/jasonpaulhayes jasonpaulhayes

This is way beyond my scope of knowledge but it sounds pretty cool. I doubt “Quiz” is in any way a proper term to describe what their doing, I’m assuming they just got the feedback they expected from it and didn’t actually hand it a #2 Pencil.

jasonpaulhayes

This is way beyond my scope of knowledge but it sounds pretty cool. I doubt “Quiz” is in any way a proper term to describe what their doing, I’m assuming they just got the feedback they expected from it and didn’t actually hand it a #2 Pencil.

quartz99

Guess we weren’t so far away from my questions in that other thread after all, now were we.

Anonymous

Guess we weren’t so far away from my questions in that other thread after all, now were we.